Step 1: check in w/ Twitter cuz its been awhile.

Step 2: someone I like posts their Nostr address

Step 3: right back on Nostr

source: Hi #[0]​ !!!

Been taking a deep-dive recently on why…

-BRICS isn’t a thing (invented by Goldman-Sachs as an investment thesis), and despite adoption isn’t going to be a thing

-China is going the way of Japan (shark-jumped for a couple decades & now faces decades of stagnation for several reasons)

…and now coming to a firmer belief that despite a potential Fourth Turning Crisis that seems clearly ahead of us…the US will continue to be the vibrant, decentralized/diversified, demographically robust place to be in the next few decades. Assuming States continue their trend toward taking back State’s Rights.

I’m going to make a prediction.

Bitcoin has seen its last 80%+ drop in fiat price, and will likely shed the halving-cycle altogether.

The next bull market will see Bitcoin more than surpass the highs expected in the muted last one.

The last bull market saw Institutional/Wall Street adoption. They were fickle, they fomo’d and fud’ed, the proverbial ‘smart money’ under a fiat standard became the dumb money in Bitcoin…but they are still in Bitcoin. The Jamie Dimon’s of the world were forced to bow in acceptance.

The next bull market will uniquely identify Bitcoin as an asset that is making massive stair-steps toward infinity. No fiduciary or money manager globally will be able to deny this any longer, every portfolio of any kind and any size will have to have some percentage of Bitcoin, and this includes sovereign wealth and central banks. This won’t happen at the outset of the next bull market, of course, but will develop over the short years after. And this will under-pin any potential for another 80% decline - which doesn’t mean people won’t fear and anticipate another brutal bear market; but markets don’t tend to do what people assume they will do.

The next bull market will establish Bitcoin, undeniably & unquestionably, as a legitimate, non-‘speculative’ asset. And will pave the way for widespread Merchant adoption as well.

Ranked-Choice Voting is still the most significant movement Bitcoiners might want to understand in the meat-world space.

Its a recognized and tested, easy to understand method for essentially saying “I vote for X, but if X doesn’t win, shift my vote to Y”.

Opens up elections to 3rd Party candidates, is phenomenally easy to implement, and encourages people to think beyond their 2-Party spectrum.

Of course…its largely blocked by both dominant Parties.

Joke by some old comedienne:

“So ladies, were you popular and attractive in high school…or were you funny?”

Bekka:

“Bone Broth BITCH!!!”

Instructions unclear.

Why follow if you want to mute?

Why 3rd party mute-filter?

I feel like I’m falling so far behind in my Nostr game.

shitsnax….ok…now Nostr Nests is a thing…fair enough.

I remember when software engineers used to talk about how if you dropped out of the space for 6 months or a year, you fell so far behind you were a dinosaur.

I believe one of the truest statements I’ve ever come upon is

The Universe is Dramatic

Everything is in a struggle between Life and Death all the Time, on every scale.

Our tiniest choices (open that bag of chips?) feed one or the other, inescapably.

We can’t win every moment of this maelstrom…we must be steadfast in the most transcendent commitments.

Alan Greenspan was specifically tasked with bringing down the ‘Internet Bubble’ in the stock market by draining liquidity in early 2000.

When AOL bought Time Warner it rocked the fiat landlords of America.

A virtual pleb had amassed enough stock-value to takeover a major corporate-controlled media company. They suddenly realized that every aspect of corporate bedrock was vulnerable to the Internet Revolution.

The “ruling elite” realized they were all at risk of losing their decades-long interpersonnally-networked status to a bunch of nerd plebs who were middle-class just a few years ago.

I was there as a young investment professional, and looking back a couple years later it was all very clear to me that while the ‘internet bubble’ was definitely a bubble…the bursting of it was an organized attack on young nobodies usurping the reigns of corporate power from the old guard. They definitely (in my opinion) tasked Alan Greenspan’s Fed with breaking this bubble, draining the investment liquidity they were awash in, and starving the first wave of these new technological Mongols at the Gates.

After this…we saw a wave of corporate money come into owning and controlling the Internet, in slow, methodical manner.

Lionel Shriver > Ayn Rand by simple virtue of being a pleb and not a fiat narcissist.

Yes. Because one thing decentralized plebs absolutely respect and take to heart…is being told they “aren’t allowed” to do something they wish to do.

Storm #nostrica!!!!

or you know, something, but keep it cool cuz we’re all in this together but don’t abide the rulez but absolutely go if you want to because it’ll be totally amazing! and fine and you know….fux the rulez!!! but def be cool when you do…

Its one thing to say “Bitcoin separates Money from State”.

But its important to recognize that “State” is only a tiny group of people.

And those people disproportionally represent another very tiny group of people.

Clinical psychology recognizes that fewer than 5% of people can be classified as ‘psychopathic’ or ‘sociopathic’. (The generally accepted definition is that “psychopaths” are born, “sociopaths” are made.)

Both pathologies are identified as having an inability to emotionally identify or ‘connect’ with fellow human beings, seeing them as ‘aspects’ of the human world to be figured-out and dealt with.

This is crucial to understand.

Because psychopathic/sociopathic personalities are drawn to positions of authority, drawn to places in life where they decide and ‘deal with’ other humans/human interactions. The reasons for this are manifold but understandable, in that they don’t feel comfortable in normal familial relations, they feel that playing inter-personal ‘chess games’ is completely normal, they avoid emotional engagement, they respect others with a proficiency for control and actually desire to sublimate themselves to such, along with many similar and related factors.

The reason I’m posting this is that its taken a long time for me to recognize why the people who pursue - not capriciously, but through life-long struggle - positions of power, invariably seem to be people without what I consider, real Conscience. And I choose the word ‘invariably’ for a reason, now, at this moment in American history, because I believe this tiny segment of Human ‘predilection’ has completely occupied and normalized positions of leadership within America, and most other countries.

I’ll end this here….but to refer back to the beginning….

When we talk about Bitcoin separating Money from State, I think its fundamentally important that we realize that what we refer to as “State” is actually just a coalesced community of individuals drawn to and operating on a distinct ‘spectrum’. Individuals who have now, and invariably always have throughout the history of mankind, naturally and sincerely always pointed their inner compass toward social positions where their talent at ‘deftly navigating the waves of human interaction’ were appreciated and validated.

I linked Muun to Damus, & sent 500 sats to experiment w/ Zaps!

When I went to ‘Zap’ someone I was told I needed 1000sats for some reason or other.

I walk away from Zapping for awhile.

I just want to take a moment during this pervy anal-sex meme to express my genuine appreciation for what you’ve been doing and creating, Bekka.

I have enjoyed and really appreciate your Artistic soul.

oops. mods, delete this comment….

Amazing interview! Let’s get Lionel some sats, plz ser.

Amazing interview! Let’s get Lionel some sats, plz ser.

Dollar Cost Averaging is a simple, powerful, underrated strength underlying Bitcoin’s price and stability that will be understood at the next halving…when it’s importance will double in a matter of minutes.

DCA is the Way.

Hashrate & Difficulty Adjustment are all you need to look at to understand that Bitcoin’s “fiat price” is legitimately and heavily manipulated.

Please prove me wrong.

The ordinal-nftys inscribed to block 777777 were actually pretty fuckin’ cool.

Not gonna lie.

Fuck ordinals.